코로나 완치자와 확진자 다녀간 업체들... 따뜻하게 보듬어줘야<br /><br />People affected by COVID-19 have suffered social stigma long after they have recovered from the virus.<br />Kim Yeon-seung looks into people who have suffered... and businesses that have been damaged due to these social side-effects of the virus.<br />Back in April, university student Lee Jeong-hwan was diagnosed with COVID-19 on his way back from Istanbul.<br />He was cured after two months of hospitalization, but had lasting side-effects such as extreme hair loss.<br />But it wasn't just the physical side effects that caused him pain.<br />"Sometimes I would talk about my COVID-19 experience in cafes, but the cafe owner would often ask me to leave once they found out what I was talking about."<br />He now has his own YouTube channel, where he posts videos to raise awareness of the side-effects of the virus.<br />Others have suffered from fake news related to COVID-19.<br />This restaurant owner in Gangnam-gu District saw her business suffer when one of her workers became COVID-19 positive in May.<br />The worker hadn't worked in her restaurant for almost two weeks before she was confirmed to have the virus, but that didn't matter.<br />News outlets reported the case as if the worker had contracted the virus from the restaurant's kitchen.<br />For more than a month, she lost most of her customers and sales fell by almost 70 percent.<br />Even other restaurants in the same chain suffered a drop in sales.<br />But the fake news continued.<br />"Even a month after this incident, an article wrongfully reported that one of our delivery staff had COVID-19. I had such a hard time telling customers that this wasn't the case because so many of them called to ask."<br />"These people only fell victim to the whims of the coronavirus.<br />But the consequences they had to suffer were too harsh.<br />It's time to realize that anyone could be just as unlucky and welcome back those who have been in the grip of Covid-19.<br />Kim Yeon-seung, Arirang News"<br />
